Drag rhythmic values into up to 4 beat blocks per line to build a drum groove, or click a tile then click a block to place it — handy on a trackpad.
What this lesson teaches: Accenting every third eighth note, so a steady 4-beat bar briefly feels like it's in 3.
This is lesson 38 of 100 in RockBlocks Drum School, a free, stepwise course where each lesson adds one new idea to the one before it. The previous lesson, “Ride Cymbal Groove,” covered moving timekeeping from the hi-hat to the ride cymbal for a more open, washy sound. Next is Lesson 39, “Building a Groove From a Fill.”
The lesson beat is loaded in the grid above. Press play to hear the loop, or drag the beat blocks to see how the groove is put together, one drum row at a time. Nothing you change here is saved, so every visitor starts from the same pattern.